Cheaperthandirt price gouging in 2013
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Steel Horse Rider
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So don't buy anything from them. Simple and effective, it certainly works for me.
SlowFuse
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I bought tons of stuff from them back in the day. After they started gouging I haven't been back to their site since. I'm fine without their products and have found other vendors I like better.
WestKentucky
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I haven't even visited their site since then. Don't miss them.
Old Dog
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Hopefully, that'll cost them. That's just wrong.
I too, have a long memory -- I've not patronized "Cheaper than Dirt" since their price-gouging shenanigans. I will, however, continue to patronize honorable businesses such as Quantico Tactical, which in the face of rampant local price-gouging during the height of the "banic"-- to include a competitor store buying P-Mags from their table at a local gun show for a most reasonable rate -- and then selling them a few tables over at a substantial mark-up, never hiked up its ammo or magazine prices. Here's to Quantico Tactical, which stood tall during the last panic run, and hopefully, will display the same integrity again.
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So...did CTD actually have these rifles in stock during the panic? You know, when they were back-ordered for six-plus months so many other places?
"Here's to Quantico Tactical, which stood tall during the last panic run, and hopefully, will display the same integrity again."
How was their availability during the height of the panic? Or were they rationing? I seem to recall an awful lot of dealers who kept prices low, sold out, and had to shut their doors when their distributors were unable to get more product to them in time. One of my dealers locally shut down for a few weeks in 2013, after selling out on 'gouged' priced items; paid taxes & wages during those down times with some of that 'ill-gotten' profit, to be sure.
I still have yet to hear an anti-gouging argument that isn't founded in entitlement (with the exception of acknowledging the reality that a lot of people feel entitled to low prices even during times of shortage because they are special, and will never forgive anyone who responds to the reality that a shortage market with fewer opportunities to make profit requires each sale to have a higher margin)
"Here's to Quantico Tactical, which stood tall during the last panic run, and hopefully, will display the same integrity again."
How was their availability during the height of the panic? Or were they rationing? I seem to recall an awful lot of dealers who kept prices low, sold out, and had to shut their doors when their distributors were unable to get more product to them in time. One of my dealers locally shut down for a few weeks in 2013, after selling out on 'gouged' priced items; paid taxes & wages during those down times with some of that 'ill-gotten' profit, to be sure.
I still have yet to hear an anti-gouging argument that isn't founded in entitlement (with the exception of acknowledging the reality that a lot of people feel entitled to low prices even during times of shortage because they are special, and will never forgive anyone who responds to the reality that a shortage market with fewer opportunities to make profit requires each sale to have a higher margin)
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"CDNN was foolish enough to include a notice of pre-election pricing in one of their weekly email ads, inferring strongly that pricing would go up at or after the election"
Should their prices *not* go up after the election if demand spikes? Lord knows when they'll be able to get inventory back online if the panic is bad enough to dry up their sources, and then they've got no money coming in. Or would it be better they 'gouge' us during the normal times so as to build up a rainy day fund? Is it not obvious that the time before the election while prices are (for now) still low and inventory available is a good time to buy, and therefore to advertise sales?
Just because their ad-copy makes you feel scared/regretful of your own decisions by reminding you of an approaching event doesn't change anything about that event or your own decisions.
Should their prices *not* go up after the election if demand spikes? Lord knows when they'll be able to get inventory back online if the panic is bad enough to dry up their sources, and then they've got no money coming in. Or would it be better they 'gouge' us during the normal times so as to build up a rainy day fund? Is it not obvious that the time before the election while prices are (for now) still low and inventory available is a good time to buy, and therefore to advertise sales?
Just because their ad-copy makes you feel scared/regretful of your own decisions by reminding you of an approaching event doesn't change anything about that event or your own decisions.
Don't like them, don't buy from them. We are not doing yet another CTD thread.
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